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APPLICATION FILED OOT.6,1910.

Patented Nov. 28, 1911.

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To all whom it may wanna:

.Beit known that 1 Many filDoosom. a citizen of the United States, residin at. Penn Yan, in the county of Yates and tate of New York, have invented a new and useful Table, of which the following a speciswinging nate tables or music cabinets,

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This invention belongs to the art of household and ofice furniture, especially ofthe light portable type, and as illustrated in the drawings, the invention refers to a new and useful article of manufacture, such as a combination table and music cabinet, there being two illustrated in Figure 1 of the drawings, each provided with means whereby a swinging leaf of one may be held in a raised position and connected to the other, thus providing a twin table or music cabinet.

The object of the invention is to provide novel constructed means dis osed between the frame of the table or ca inet and the leaf thereof, to hold the swinging leaf in a horizontal position, so that the same may be connected to a table similar in construction, in the manner illustrated in Fig. 1.

In the drawings :Fig. 1 is a view in perspective, showing two tables or music cabinets, joined together by an intermediate swinging leaf, showing means carried by one table or cabinet for the support of the leaf. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on a line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view,clearl showing the supporting members for hol ing the swinging leaf in a tion, and further showing the means for connecting the leaf to the adjacent table or cabinet. Fig. 4 is a plan view, showing the supporting device on an enlarged scale. Fig. 5 18 a side elevation of the support, shown as being projected from the view in Fig. 4.

Referring to. the drawings, 1 and 2 desigwhich are rectangular in contour, as shown in Fig. 1. Each table or cabinet is provided with a series of drawers 3. The table or cabinet 1 has hinged to the top thereof at one side, a swinging leaf 4. This leaf 4 is hinged as at 5 to the table 1, as shown in Fig. 2. The table 2, however, is not provided with a swinging leaf, but beneath the top at one side of the table, there is provided a semicircular flangedplate 6, the purpose of which will hereinafter appear.

To the frame 7 as seen in Fig. 3 of the table 1, are fixed socket members 8, the shell of which is slotted as at 9 for the reception horizontal posiof the rod 10, when the swinging leaf is dropped in aposition as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. Attention is called to Figs. 1 and 3, in which there are disclosed two supporting rods 10, and upon their fixed ends balls 11 are formed, which are seated in the sockets 8. It will be observed, in Fig.

5, that the sockets are made in two pieces,

placed together as shown at 12 in Fig. 5. It will be understood that when the swinging leaf is disposed as shown. in dotted linesin Fig. Carried by similar to those fastened to the frame of the table. These sockets 13 also consist of two parts 14 and 15, so constructed, when placed together, as to form slots 16 which receive the rods 17, when the swinging leaf is thrown in a position as shownm dotted lines in Fig. 1, or as shown in dotted lines in 5.

Upon referring to the drawing it will be observed that the rods 10 and 17 are joined together by a barrel and hub joint 18, while the end 19 of the rod 17 is provided with a ball 20, which is seated in the socket 13. These joints 18 comprise a barrel shaped member 21, with a plate 22 detachably carried at one end, the same being secured to the barrel by means of screws 23 as seen in Fig. 5. The hub 24 of the joint 18 is carried integrally by the rod 10 and is seated in the barrel as shown in Fig. 5, there being one of these joints for each pair of rods 10 and 17. At the point where the rod 10 becomes a part of the hub 21, the rod 10 is rovided with an opening 25 which receives a lug 26 of the barrel member 21, that is tp' say, when the leaf 4 of the table 1 is thrown in a position as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. It will be observed that \to place the hub withinthe barrel, the end 22 of the barrel is first removed, and then the hub is inserted endwise into the barrel, and when in place the lug 26 holds the hub true to its position and work.

Connected between the rods 10 and 17 are springs 27 which are so arranged with reard to the center of the hub and barrel oint, as to hold the rods in their extensible ositions or in their collapsible positions. 11 other words, when the rods 10 and 17 are extended, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, as well as Figs. 4 and 5, the spring 27 contracts onthe lower side of the joint 18, but when the rods 10 and 17 are in'a collapsed position, thesprings 27 collapse, on the opwlslit side of the center of the joint 18.

on these sprin are contracting there is a tendency to co apse the rods or to hold them extended. These springs 27 are connec ed as at 28 and 29 to the rods 10 and 17. When the leaf of the table 1 is held in a horizontal position, as shown in Fig. 1, there necessarily has to be some means for connecting the leaf to the table 2. This is accompllshed, however, by' a plate 30, between ears 31 on which a swingin dog 32 is pivoted. This dog, as seen in ig. 2, is provided with a nose 33, which engages under the semiannular flange 34 of the semicircular plate 6, previously referred to. It will be observed that by this plate 6 and the swinging dog 32 this swinging leaf 4 may be held in a raised horizontal position as seen in Fig. 1. a I

From the foregoing, in connection with the annexed drawings, it will be manifest that a novel form of means is provided, for the support of a swinging leaf in a horizontal position,-so that the leaf may be connected securely to an adjacent table or cabinet as seen in Fig. 1. It will be observed that the edge which engages the top of the table 2 is so formed as to prevent upward movement of the leaf, especially when the swinging dog is securely in engagement with the semicircular keeper plate 6, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3.

' barrel, said tioned rod, said barrel receiving said enlargement, and a projection carried by said projection entering an aperture formed in the first mentioned rod.

2. In a leaf support for tables, a leaf hingedly connected to the table, a rod pivotally supported by the table, a rod pivotally supported by the leaf, a cylindrical enlargement formed integral with the end portion of the first mentioned rod, a barrel arranged on the end portion of the second mentioned rod, said barrel being formed with an extension arranged to extend within said enlargement and a projection carried by said barrel, said projection being arranged to enter an aperture formed in the first mentioned rod.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MARY BRAYMAN DODSON.

Witnesses:

H. K. ARMSTRONG, GEORGE S. SHEPPARD. 

